Word: authoritarianism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...terror, complete with religious fundamentalists (here, genocidal robots called Cylons), sleeper cells, civil-liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner-torture scandal. The basic-cable budget sometimes shows in the production, but the writing and performances are first-class, especially Edward James Olmos as the noble but authoritarian commander in charge of saving the last remnants of humanity. Laugh if you want, but this story of enemies within is dead serious, and seriously good...
...Unfortunately, Africa also recently has been the scene of severest forms of misfortune and suffering—communal conflict including genocide, authoritarian and kleptocratic rule, political upheaval and anarchy, poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, disease, economic underdevelopment, and environment degradation. Yet, while it may be more distressing and less profitable to deal with Africa than with other regions or issues, it must not be ignored. Africa’s problems are precisely the reason to hone in on the continent—both for the moral cause of helping fellow humans, and for the self-interested rationale of preventing Africa?...
...forgiven for lifting his eyes to the horizon. Once the subject of withering criticism from human-rights groups for his authoritarian ways and intolerance of dissent, he is now widely acknowledged as Asia's most respected senior statesman. Others may pen lengthy memoirs and seek to use their years on the world stage to tout their punditry and powers of prediction. Some can even lay claim to having guided far larger countries or served as leaders for longer than Lee. But Lee is unique. It is not just that his cold-eyed, totally nonideological analysis has set him apart from...
...rest only on other nations' failures. Above all, it is bolstered by Singapore's success. For as any visitor can attest, the scale of what Lee and his colleagues have achieved by applying his principles - in what Singaporean academic and fiction writer Catherine Lim has described as "an authoritarian, no-nonsense manner which has little use for sentiment" - is simply astonishing...
...current hot spots in the Middle East and Central Asia. Romanians are also, for the most part, happy to see more U.S. boots on the ground, which would not be true of U.S. allies in Western Europe. With a watchful eye on Russia and Vladimir Putin's increasingly authoritarian regime, Romanians are both grateful to the U.S. for its support during the Cold War and anxious for the additional security that could come with enhanced military ties...